Glazing.



M. RASMUSSEN GLAZING.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 2. 1914.

Patented D66. 21, 1915.

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MARTIN misMUsSnN, or RACINE, WISCONSIN, ASSIGNOR or ONE-HALF To BARTHoLoMEwo. TI-IBONSON', or BACINE, wIscoNsrN.

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Application filed January 2, 1914. Serial No. 809,947.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN RAsMUssnN, a subject of the King of Denmark, but having filed my intention to become a citizen of the United States, and resident of Racine, in the county of Racine and State of W'isconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Glazing; and I do hereby declare that the following is-a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

My invention consists in what is herein particularly set forth with reference to the accompanying drawings and pointed out in the claims of this specification, its object being to simplify and cheapen the glazing of sashes by providing economical, automatically compensating clamps for the glass, these clamps being readily attachable to the rails and stiles of the sash and as readily detachable therefrom.

Figure 1 of the drawings represents a front elevation of a fragment of a glazed sash and illustrates the application of glass retaining clamps in accordance with my invention; Fig. 2, a partly cross-section per- 1 spective view of a fragment of a sash rail or strip constituting an element of one of said clamps. 7

Referring by numeral to the drawings, 4 indicates the lower rail, and 5 a stile of a sash in which a pane 6 of glass is secured by clamps in accordance with my invention. Each clamp-comprises a primarily flat strip of suitable hard metal fashioned to provide the same with a series of inclined sash engaging prongs 7 at intervals of one of its longitudinal edges, these prongs being of preferably triangular shape similar to glaziers points of common knowledge. Each pronged strip is folded upon itself to form a rib 8 by which to face a rabbet on the sash and it is also bent to provide diverging flanges 9, 10, the flange 9 being preferably curvilinear in cross-section and designed to oppose the glass in the sash. However the flange 10 may be omitted without departure from my invention as herein claimed, and, owing to its shaping, said strip is springy.

\Vithin the housing confines of the stripflange 9 is a core 11 of contractile and expansilewaterproof material, and in some instance said flange and core may be adhesively connected. VVaterproofed cord is one of the various materials suitable for the cores, and putty may be economically employed in the making of Said cores.

In practice, the aforesaid strips and cores therewith may be indefinitely long and cut into lengths to suit sashes of varying dimensions, and the ends of each length may be beveled to provide for miter joining with similar cored stripping, as is shown in Fig. 1. For engagement of the strip-flanges 10, faces of the rabbets of the rails and stiles of the sash are longitudinally grooved, one of the grooves being indicated at 12 in Fig. 1, and said rails and stiles are preferably primarily indented to form seats in which to start the pressing or driving in of the strip-prongs. The glassis set to engage the rabbets of the sash rails and stiles, and the cores 11, if detached from the strips 7,

.are laid outside of the glass along its intersections with said rabbets, after which said strips are positioned and pressed or driven home to compress said cores, their inner edges being snug against said glass. Owing to the compression of the cores against the glass and the housing of said cores by the flanges 9 of said strips, the joints of said glass with the sash rails and stiles are made weathertight. The waterproof cores under compression and the spring-backing for the same have yield and expansion coincidental to expansion and contraction of the glass, and thus automatic compensating weathertight joints result between said glass and the therein, cores of contractile and expansile I have hereunto set my hand at Racine in material opposing the sash rabbets and the the county of JEI-aCineand Stateo f Wisconglass, and springy metal strips each fashn sin, in the presence of two Witnesses.

ioned to form an outer rabbet facing rib, a I MARTIN RASMUSSEN. 5 dependinpsash engaging flange and prongs Witnesses: n 1 Y and a core covering glass abutting flange. A. R. J ANECKY,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing y L. A. LAUER.

Copies of this patent may be pbtaineq for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents Y e Washington, I). C. i 

